Green Business Practices from the Environmental Defense Fund

By Gail Nickel-Kailing on May 28th, 2008

There was a time - back in the ’70s - when the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) was considered to be an activist group on the lunatic fringe. We’ve all grown a lot since then!

Since the late ‘8os, the group has been working with national and multi-national companies to make breakthroughs in addressing environmental challenges.

You can get a copy of their latest report from one of my favorite websites - Green Biz - by clicking here>>

Contents include:

• Company-wide innovations
  Real estate
  Operations & manufacturing
  Fleet management
  Packaging
  Information technology
  Finance
  Human resources
• Innovations by industry
  Shipping
  Retail
  Food & agriculture
  Banking & finance
  Insurance
• Environmental Defense Fund innovations

The areas that might be of interest first are fleet management and packaging, but a look at both the company-wide innovations AND the innovations by industry. Your customers and prospects - or companies like them - may be applying some of the innovations listed here.

Consider this an opportunity to add more “business intelligence” about your customer base to help you define your products and services to deliver the solutions they need.